Getting started with RTAI/Fusion

2005-09-22T16:25:00

The RTAI Project has succeeded in developing
a true hard real-time environment for Linux. An old
href="http://linuxgazette.net/issue95/pramode.html">LG article I had
written explains some of the concepts involved. The project has grown at a
rapid pace; an interesting development has been the growth of Fusion,
the `next-generation' RTAI. Fusion provides tighter integration with the
non real-time Linux environment; it also exposes a handful of primitives using
which we can implement the API of any Real Time Operating System. Once such a
`skin' for say a propreitary RTOS (like VxWorks) becomes available, it
is quite easy to `port' applications over to Linux (the VxWorks skin is
already available - though I am not sure how well it has been tested).
I have been playing around with Fusion for the past few days, partly with the
objective of getting a few students interested in it. The core developer of
the project, Philippe Gerum is a dynamic fellow and had responded to one or two
bug reports I had sent to the mailing list promptly - I send in the bug report
and I get back a patch in half an hour - that's what you would call `rapid development'!
Here is a small document I have written to help you get started with Fusion:
Getting Started with
Fusion

stephen

Tue Jan 8 16:44:42 2008

hi,
i think the 'getting started with rtai ' link is dead.plz change the same.
cheers
steven

shyjumon

Thu Apr 24 09:12:40 2008

sir,
The link "Getting Started with
Fusion" is dead.... please activate... may be are you becoming lazy....
Shyjumon

Pramode C.E

Thu Apr 24 09:25:06 2008

The link became broken during a change in hosting service - I am unable to locate the original document :-(